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Your University, Your City

Since its founding in 1906, Suffolk University has made a commitment to provide its students with unparalleled experiences and opportunities. Explore our unique downtown Boston location, and then consider the many paths your life might take from here.

Getting Started

We’re excited that you want to learn more about Suffolk, and we think you’ll like what you find. Whether you’re looking into colleges or graduate school programs, we’re eager to help answer your questions and walk you through the application process.

No Boundaries

A Community of Learning

As you start your academic journey, you’ll find a supportive network of faculty, staff, and classmates ready to help you succeed. We let you chart the course your education takes, from traditional classes enriched by real-world experiences to research projects, study abroad, internships, and more.

Life As We Know It

Suffolk places you smack in the heart of Boston, with countless activities at hand and unexpected opportunities around every corner. Whether you’re commuting or living on campus, you’ll find yourself making connections and getting involved.

An Extended Family

When you graduate from Suffolk, you join a strong alumni community that will continue to enrich your life. More than 70,000 living Suffolk alumni stay connected with each other and the University, supporting their alma mater—including current students—in a whole bunch of ways.

Celebrate your Suffolk pride! This special weekend will be the perfect opportunity for you and your whole family to reconnect with Suffolk. October 12–14, 2017

Whether you're a student-athlete, an alum, or just looking for the latest game times, you'll find plenty of excitement in Suffolk athletics. We believe that athletic participation and competition are important aspects of the college experience. Lessons discovered through athletic participation contribute to success in a student's college years as well as in their future professional and personal experiences.

Invest in Excellence

Each graduate and friend of Suffolk University has the potential to make Suffolk even greater. We encourage giving at every level, with an emphasis on scholarships for a new generation of Suffolk students. Thank you so much for your support.

Records Management

Records Management services are available to all faculty and staff members who create, use, or otherwise access or interact with any University Records, in both paper and electronic format. The Program also provides assistance to the Suffolk community on managing active records, secure records storage and destruction, file planning, large-scale digitization, identifying permanent archival records, and customized employee or department training.

Policies and Guides

Policies

Records not only provide evidence of business activities, but are vital resources on the history and accomplishments of the Suffolk University community. Recognizing this, the Office of the Provost has enacted a policy regulating the creation, maintenance, and proper disposition of all records, regardless of format. The Record Retention Policy should be considered in conjunction with the guidelines set forth in the Written Information Security Policy and the Records Retention Schedule.

Guides

The Records Management Program also provides guidance on keeping and destroying records, help in identifying records of permanent historical value, assistance on maintaining compliance with University records retention policies, consultation on controlling costs associated with records storage, assistance in transferring records to offsite storage facilities, guidance on managing the records of new and separating employees, help in preparing for office moves and clean ups, and information on resources for large scale scanning and destruction projects. Below is a selection of helpful guides:

Records Retention Schedule

The Records Retention Schedule lists records commonly found in many divisions throughout the University, indicating their respective retention periods and other instructions for the disposition of those records. To identify the record or record category, check the schedule’s functional headings and table of contents listing record types, or search for keywords using the dynamic search bar.

Remember to determine whether you have the official version of the record. Unofficial, convenience copies of a record have no retention requirement and, therefore, can be destroyed when no longer administratively useful. Some Schedule entries will define the official record copy holder.

If you do not see a particular record type in the schedule, or if you are having trouble identifying a record in hand, please contact the University Records Manager.

Transferring Records Offsite

Some records will become inactive before they are eligible for destruction or transfer to the Archives. Since most offices have a limited amount of space, the University has contracted with William B. Meyer, Inc. to provide us with cost-effective offsite storage.

Inactive records that must be retained for a year or more should be transferred to W.B. Meyer's special records warehouse located in Wallingford, CT. The warehouse combines state-of-the-art construction with a streamlined service operation and online inventory management system to provide the University with an extraordinarily high level of physical control, environmental protection, and inventory security for their collections. By using the storage service, staff can clear offices of inactive records that absorb resources better dedicated to more active records. Active records, however, should not be sent offsite, where their retrieval incurs a charge.

Transferring records offsite

To transfer records to offsite storage, you must first have a storage account. Once your account is set up, you will recieve login information to TotalRecall, WB Meyer's online inventory system. To set up an account, fill out the New Department Add and New User Add forms, and email them to the Records Manager, Michael Dello Iacono, who will assist you in your first box transfer.

If your office already has a storage account, refer to the forms below for instructions on sending new boxes offsite or requesting box deliveries.

Archiving Records

In accordance with its mission to capture and preserve corporate memory and legacy, Suffolk University requires that records designated as having permanent historical research value be transferred to the Archives. The Archives has the trained staff and facilities to ensure the preservation, reliability, accessibility, and authenticity of permanent records over time.

To transfer records to the permanent Archives:

Note on the Records Retention Schedule if the retention plan states to “transfer to the Archives” or “contact Archives for review”

Destroying Records

Once a record has reached its required retention date, please request authorization of destruction and document your actions by completing a Document Destruction Form, having it endorsed by your Department Head, and submitting it to the Records Manager.

Records that do not contain Personal Information can be recycled or otherwise disposed of in your office. For records that contain Personal Information, please contact the Records Manager to arrange for secure onsite or offsite destruction. In both cases, the Records Manager will permanently maintain the Document Destruction Form in the University Archives